A year on, no business as usual at Austrian border

It’s holiday season at Nickelsdorf on Austria’s border with Hungary as families hit the highway. The “West Balkans route” that saw hundreds of thousands of migrants pass through Austria in 2015 is closed, and a deal between Turkey and the European Union has dramatically slowed the influx. Until recently, police were intercepting between 400 and 500 people sneaking into Austria every week.